Ramblings of the Mildly Insane

I’m probably the only person in the world who hasn’t heard of Robin Thicke, so I Googled him.

Of course, his official website came up at the top of the listings. I turned my volume way down and braced myself to be bombarded with music…instead, I was greeted with beautiful silence. Nevermind. It seems I didn’t have the patience to wait for his intro to finish loading and immediately clicked the “Photos” link which explains why I was greeted by silence. Still nice not to have music on every page though.

Yes, glorious silence. I was able to click around, sample songs I actually wanted to hear (though, ladies, I would advise against watching his video if you’re offended by a camera sitting on the ground watching some girl in a bikini bounce around and ‘drop it like it’s hot’.)

Calling all music professionals, don’t assume we’ll like whichever music you set to play automatically upon arrival to your site. Don’t assume we all have our volume set to an ideal level while cruising the internet. Don’t assume that because your ass is plastered on a bazillion CD covers that we should wait nineteen hours for your music to finish loading so we can actually see the rest of your website.

That is all.

While speaking with a potential client, I remember her mentioning Hilary Duff’s website. I remembered the site being very light (white, blue, pink, etc.) and very well done – but when I went to hilaryduff.com it was green and tacky (what’s up with the Target banner?) – then I realized, the site I had visited many many moons ago must have been her “dedicated” music site.

Now I’m listening to “Fly” and I absolutely love this song, I really just wish someone else sang it. I love the lyrics, I love the melody, I love the harmony. I have nothing against Hilary, I just frankly don’t like her voice. Okay, enough ranting.

I just finished downloading the Microsoft Media Player 10 (yes, I’m slow – considering, I generally adopt the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” philosophy, but it prompted me and I clicked yes before I realized what it asked…) and wouldn’t I be damned, I have a whole lot more MP3s on this computer than I realized (somewhere in the tune of 2,000 and change…)

The new media player autosearched my computer for media files to add to the library, located every single one and is playing them back for me – pretty dern nifty if I do say so…just finished listening to Breaking Benjamin‘s So Cold and now we’re moving on to AFI‘s Bleed Black and apparently next in line after that is Silver and Cold.

<side note> AFI is starting to grow on me – alot </side note>

I really like this sleek new interface, I didn’t realize how tired of looking at the old one I was, but this one is pretty cool. Apparently, there are a couple new buttons, so I’ll be playing around trying to figure out what each of them do…but it seems like it should be fun. Even their little icon has changed a little bit (not much and not very noticeable, but I’m a geek like that…)

Was the “Rip” button always there? And here I’ve been using third-party software to rip my CDs….

Granted, MTV is no longer on the list of my favorite music channels cuz they only have about 10% music, about 5% half way plausible shows, and about 85% crap, but all that aside, I think they’ve actually come up with something good…

Video Mods – the idea is to combine video games with music videos , two things I enjoy, but what really did it for me was “Gossip Folks” by Missy Elliot.

The mod was complete with background dancers and snow-boarding – granted, the animated characters looked nothing like their real life counterparts and I don’t think Missy or Ludacris ever snow-boarded a day in their lives, but that’s besides the point…

The cogs in my head started turning…but then…a dancing yeti – yes….the legendary furry snow beast was bustin’ a groove with two skeletons and that’s when I knew I had to figure out how these video mods work!

Frankly, I don’t care too much for 3D graphics (unless I’m not the one creating it) – but now I’m curious..I would so love to make a nifty little 3D video mod – but one step at a time…guess I need to dust off 3DS Max (thank you ****) and the accompanying manual…gosh I hope I didn’t uninstall it…eh

You may notice a lot of “rock” bands on this list – I think I’m going through a phase

1. Getting Away With Murder – Papa Roach
I never really cared too much for Papa Roach…well, that is until I heard this song for the second time – I guess they’re not so bad after all

2. Silver and Cold – AFI
This band is starting to grow on me – well not literally – but I have found myself listening to a few of their songs and actually liking it – go ‘head

3. So Cold – Breaking Benjamin
Uh yea…weird what I thought when I actually saw the video…but that’ll be left for another post on another day.

4. Somebody Told Me – The Killers
“Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend that looks like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year…”
Oh yea, you know I like this song

5. Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) – Chevelle
Chevelle? Isn’t that a car made by Chevy? Oh, yep…it is…prolly why www.chevelle.com was already taken by a car parts dealer and they had to fall back to www.chevelleinc.com – at least they rank #1 on Google for “chevelle” – but I gotta admit, they do make good music

6. Breaking the Habit – Linkin Park
Of course something by Linkin Park was going to make it on the list – that’s to be expected.

7. Goodies – Ciara ft. Peetie Pablo
I think I like this song cuz it’s something you can choreograph a dance to, which I’ve already done…I have to say it though, Ciara is a lovely girl and all – but her face looks funky throughout this video – what’s up with all that funny lip stuff? I also want to know where she finds those low rise jeans that don’t show crack – I have yet to find a pair…

8. Broken – Seether ft. Amy Lee
aaaaaah, I just love this song…I swear, it reminds me of something, can’t put my finger on it though – but I do have to sign along

9. A Decade Under the Influence – Taking Back Sunday
when I first heard it this song, my initial reaction was “huh?” – but after listening to it a few times, I can’t help but watch my foot tap and head bop to the beat – I’ve even caught myself singing the chorus a few times…freaky

10. Just Like You – Three Days Grace
Just because I love the guitarist’s mohawk…it’s not like the normal pointy ones (it’s all fun and games ’til someone loses an eye) but it looks like someone took a pair of scissors to it and made the points blunt…pretty cool

Broken by Seether ft Amy Lee

The melody is infectious and beautiful…and the lyrics are eerily sweet (and those lil black angel wings rock).

“I wanted you to know that I love the way you laugh, I want to hold you high and steal your pain away. I keep your photograph and I know it serves me well, but I want to hold you high and steal your pain because I’m broken when I’m lonesome and I don’t feel right when you’re gone away…”

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I heard about Linkin Park by chance by some dude (don’t remember his name, it was over a year ago) – I remember he asked me what kind of music I listened to and I said “I’m pretty much open to anything”. He asked if I heard of Linkin Park and I, like a dumbass, said “Yea, I’ve been to that park a few times” (in my own defense – there is a park called Lincoln Park where I live). I was curious how he got off the topic of music and onto the subject of a park at 10PM though…

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